Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-15
The Blind Tiger Raises His Head and
Meets with Encouragement ia
the Central City.
The waterworks ouestion-A Negro. KnIed
Operations of Horse Thievss-The
prohibition Convention,
Special to the Gazette.

| set out what was calledtor, and he quickly
made the discovery known to his friends,
who had been standing about on the
shady side of the, street with
their tongues hanging out, and almost
furnishing for q drink of ice water. OR
some other water. Any one passing in
at the alley door walked only aoout five
or six PAGES when he discovered picture
tof one of the 1.-TWO Johns'' on the door.
EAcross the largest part of the
one John was written the name
of our County Attorney, T. A. Blair.
But this is unimpOrtant to any one
who wants to know more about the
automatic machine. On the panel of the
door where the picture was placed was a
slide, which, when tapped on, would raise
up and sort of closet with a shelf in it
would be revealed. On the shelf sat a
tin box which contained slips of
blank paper and the thirsty citizen
wrote on these slips the style Of
fluid his appetite Crayed and placed it in
the closet along with q sum Of money re-
quired to pay fer the drinks. The slide
then went down with q slam. Waiting a
moment, the thirsty man knocked again,
and up the slide came, and there stood
glasses with Just what was called for on
the slip Of paper. II man had friend
and they both wanted straight whisky,
he wrote "two straightS" and put quar-
ter OF dollar on the shelf. If they
wanted beer, 1.-TWO beers" were written
on the slip and ten cents left in the
closet A gentleman who was present
said that he saw one fellow 20 through
the forIuality of getting drink, which
created quite laugh among those who
were present. The fellow put
down Is cents and wrote Gone
bot. beer" The slide closed
down and when it raised again there was
the fifteen cents and on the slip of paper
was written "25c." The crowd laughed
at the dry man, but he placed twenty five
cents in the closet, and in few minutes
he found bottle of beer with the cork
pulled out, and two glasses. He drank
the beer and made room for the next
man. During the whole time no one was
seen on the inside of the building, and no
conversation was carried on. 1t was
! slick piece of work, and no one
cen swe&r who sold the liquors or who
got the money. The grand jury will in
vestigate the blind tiger. Many saloon
men condemn the game that was played,
saving it furnishes weapons for the pro-
hibItiOnists.
News was received here this morning
from Crawford, in the western portion Of
this county, that at midnight on Friday
night last John Hollis, negro man, was
called out Of his home by fifteen or twenty
masked men, riddled with bullets and
| left on the ground dead. Nobody knows
the cause of this mob violence. This
morning Deputy Sheriff Ford received g
telegram from Constable Costley at CraW-
ford, SAYING: "Arrest Nose Martin;
wanted for murder" Martin was found
on the street and jailed. Heis negro and
son-in-law of Hollis, who was murdered.
It is conjeCtUred the officers at Crawford
have some information which duplicates
| Martin in the lynchinG, but no word has
been received from Crawford yet, Martin
says he has been working at the oil mills
in the city several days and was in Waco
the night of the murder.
There are no new developments to-day
in regard to waterworks matters. The
special committee is considering the
three bids as well as the protest
of the Waco Water Company against
any award being made. In regard
80 this protest Mr.. White, President of
the Waco Water Company, has placed the
matter in the hands of his attorneys,
&rssTs. Clark and Dyer, and they will
! lock al -er Il. Mr.. White saws nothing
will be done about the protest in
| a legal way at present. Alderman Ste
phenson, one of the committee, said: 81
cannot assume to speak for the rest of the
committee, but for myself l regret
Mr.. White did not put in bid.
If his bid had been as good as
anybody else'S l would have been
! in favor of giving him the contract,
because he is here and has his capital in
vested in Waco" Other leading citizens,
not members of the council, have ex-
pressed the same opinion. There was
very little hostility per Sc to the Waco
! Water Company, and its course is re-
garded as grave mistake.
! CITY Attorney r. l. Munroe is of opin-
! ion that an election for mayor can be
! held if Mayor SturgiS resigns. Mr.. Mum
roe says the law is reasonable, ard thst
in the event of vacancy the people should
| elect, and that it is unreasonable for
q mayor pro TEN to nominate an Off
Ger higher than himself to be confirmed
! by the council. There are other attorneys
who are of the opinion that 10 election
can be held by the people TO FL the va
canCy of mayor. The matter will be settled
| between now and the next regular meet
ing of the council Thursday night.
The city is already filing up with peo-
pie who come to attend the non political
prohibition convention tomorrow, and
many leading lights of prohibition will be
here. All the indications point TO very
large attendance. It is evident that
| Moore's hall, where it was first proposed
to hold the convention, will be too small,
and the McClelland opera house has been
| secured. The convention will be called
to order at 10 a. n. tomorrow.
Rev. a. A. Johnson, president of the
Texas Wesleyan College, is in the city
the guest of Rev. Horace Bishop. Mr..
Johnson preached in the Fifth street
NJ. E. Church South yesterday and re-
mans over's tomorrow to attend the
state prohibition convention.
q Five or six deputy sheriffs went out
east of The city this afternoon, for the
purpose of trying to capture Houston
Berry and four others of his game,
who have been stealing horses
and cattle in the Little Tehua-
tcsaa neighborhood and spreading
Eterrer among the Germans, large num-
Der ofWhem reside in that neighborhood.
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